Peter De Vries Quotes
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
Peter De Vries
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My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
Zubin Mehta
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I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'
J. R. Martinez
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
Larry Kramer
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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
Nadia Comaneci
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
Natan Sharansky
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Technology magnifies differences, and it's been replacing or obviating jobs for a long time. But what happens as that case accelerates? I'm not one of these doomsayers who says, 'There will be no jobs.'
Sam Altman
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In Paragon we met Mrs. Foley and Mrs. Dowdeswell with her yellow shawl airing out, and at the bottom of Kingsdown Hill we met a gentleman in a buggy, who, on minute examination, turned out to be Dr. Hall - and Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
Jane Austen
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I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.
Donna Douglas
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
Barack Obama
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Book publishing was never a heaven 'run by editors', and it is by no means today a hell 'run by accountants.' If our 'sole interest' was 'instant profit,' not only would we never do any number of the things we actually do every day, we probably wouldn’t be in book publishing at all.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
Peter De Vries
